GEOMETRIC MEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geometric mean mean? 

• GEOMETRIC MEAN (noun)
  The noun GEOMETRIC MEAN has 1 sense:

1. the mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product

  Familiarity information: GEOMETRIC MEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOMETRIC MEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The mean of n numbers expressed as the n-th root of their product

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("geometric mean" is a kind of...):

mean; mean value (an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

 Context examples 

A unit of measure equal to the geometric mean fluorescence intensity of a log-normal distribution of fluorescence signals.

(Median Fluorescence Intensity, NCI Thesaurus)